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America in Legend: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present
by Dorson, Richard M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0394461401
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461403
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Pantheon Books, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xvi, 336. Royal 8vo. Bound in beige cloth with gilt decoration to front board, and brown lettering to spine. Coloured pastedowns and endpapers. 9 colour plates, and numerous black & white in-text photos & illustrations. Very good in price-clipped, very good- dustjacket with one short closed tear and crease to top edge of rear panel (protected in brodart sleeve).
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- Bookseller
- BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 051278
- Title
- America in Legend: Folklore from the Colonial Period to the Present
- Author
- Dorson, Richard M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394461401
- ISBN 13
- 9780394461403
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1973
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mythology;
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About the Seller
BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...